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existing

  • /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ɪstɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of exist

adjective

  1. not comparable That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now. Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possib

    Similar: NDR is the percentage of recurring revenue from existing customers., Existing legislation is inadequate to cover these cases., existent

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: existent, present, active, alive, actual, original, existence, relevant, course, up-to-date, present-day, inherent, prevalent, occurring, already, previous

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adj that exists

Españolexistente
日本語現在の genzai no
中文現有 /现有 xiànyǒu, 現存 /现存 xiàncún
Portuguêsexistente
Françaisexistant
Deutschbestehend, existierend
Italianoesistente
Ελληνικάυπάρχων ypárchon
Românăexistent
Русскийсуществу́ющий suščestvújuščij
العربيةمَوْجُود mawjūd

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"existing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/existing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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existing. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/existing

Chicago

"existing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/existing.

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@misc{existing_2026,
  title = {existing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/existing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}